Datadog
Staff Product Designer, Modern Compute
New York, New York, USA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$204k-$255kDetected 18 hours ago
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About the role
- Our customers work in complex environments like Kubernetes and serverless, where infrastructure changes constantly, information is dense, and decisions about reliability, performance, and cost are closely connected.
- We're looking for a Staff Product Designer to join Modern Compute, with an initial focus on Containers Autoscaling.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end product design for Modern Compute, initially focused on our Autoscaling product.
- Help define the product direction for an area that is still evolving, from early framing and exploration through detailed design and delivery.
- Design clear, trustworthy experiences for engineers making high-stakes decisions about infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost.
- Set a high bar for interaction and visual design, including complex states, data-heavy workflows, and edge cases.
- Create reusable patterns that improve consistency across Modern Compute and the broader Datadog product.
- Design and build realistic prototypes in code using coding agents, while applying good judgment about when other tools or levels of fidelity are more appropriate.
- You bring exceptional interaction and visual design craft, particularly in dense, technical, or data-heavy experiences.
Requirements
- You have 10+ years of experience designing complex web-based products, including experience operating at a Staff level or in a role with comparable scope.
- You have led ambiguous product work where the direction was not already defined and your involvement changed the outcome.
- You can simplify complex systems for expert users without watering down how those systems work.
- You are comfortable working closely with product managers and engineers throughout the product development process.
- Experience designing infrastructure, observability, cloud, or developer tools.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, autoscaling, GitOps, YAML, or related infrastructure workflows.
- Experience designing products for SREs, platform engineers, or application developers.
- Experience working across a multi-product SaaS platform.
Skills
- Datadog's Infrastructure products help engineers understand and operate the systems their applications depend on.
- Autoscaling helps engineering teams make better decisions about how their applications and infrastructure use resources.
- The work also connects to other parts of Datadog, including observability, Cloud Cost Management, permissions, and AI-assisted workflows.
Compensation
- $204,000 - $255,000 USD
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
Company info
- Designing these experiences requires making deeply technical systems understandable, helping customers act with confidence, and fitting into the tools and workflows they already use.
- This includes how customers get started, understand recommendations, evaluate value, and safely apply changes across their environments.
Visa & Work Authorization
- t opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics
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